CRC finishes milling season and announces payment to workers

Central Romana Corporation, Ltd. announced that it will pay more than one thousand seventy-three million pesos (RD$1,073,190,832.00) in bonuses to all its workers after concluding the sugar harvest corresponding to the 2021-2022 period. 

This amount is the highest payment that the company has delivered in its entire history as part of salaries and benefits to its workers and employees, through the collective bargaining agreement with its workers union Sindicato Unido de Trabajadores. 

The company reported that it produced around 394,000 short tons of sugar after completing a milling of more than 3,350,000 short tons of cane.  In addition, it also produced more than 152,000 short tons of refined sugar and around 19 million gallons of molasses in totally 203 days of production.

With a maintained average yield of 11.75 percent with regard to the manufacturing process, the company was able to cater to the demand for sugar in the entire national market.  “Thanks to the capacity and dedication of all our personnel in the field and the industrial area, we continue to lead the industry as the largest sugar producer in the country and one of the most important in the Caribbean,” highlighted the Administration of Central Romana.

The company generates more than 20,000 direct jobs in the province of La Romana and the eastern part of the country, promoting various social responsibility programs for its communities in terms of health, education, housing, food and physical recreation. 

In 2022, the company achieved its fifth recertification under the PROTERRA standard, focusing on social responsibility and environmental sustainability.  The company was successful in certifying its production of cane sugar and its derivatives, covering the planting, cutting, and grinding in the mill.  In addition, sugar produced by Central Romana has been certified under the ISO 9001 quality control standard since 2011.

Likewise, the sugar produced by Central Romana has been certified since 2011 under the ISO-9001 quality control standard by the English firm Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance.